good evening, everyone. this is cnn tonight. i m alisonyn camerota. we have details on violent attack on nancy pelosi s 82-year-old husband paul. an intruder attacked him with a hammer shouting where is nancy. when police arrived, he told them quote he was waiting for nancy. an angry president joe biden called the attack despicable. enough is enough is enough. every person of good conscious needs to clearly and unambiguously stand up against the violence in our policies regardless of what your politics are. this part will not shock you. the alleged attacker posted conspiracy theories on facebook includ including links to mike lindell. not only are our elected officials in danger days before the midterms, so are their families. federal officials are warning that domestic violent extremists pose a heightened threat to the midterms and beyond. let s bring in our cnn law enforcement analyst jonathan and cnn national security analyst juliette. great to have you guys in studi
Attacked. politics, for some in office or aspired office work to stir up the vision to make folks as angry and automatic of this is a all of this is amped up on social immemedia and platforms contiroversy for profitable tha telling the truth. back with me andrew, debbie and doug. this is what we were saying. can we stop using social media? how would we find out about the thoughts of that random person? i mean, i m not asking this rhetorically, i know this is a longer conversation we don t
What the republican party is doing, they are running a race war campaign. they don t care about the black vote. they are trying to maximize every ounce of the white vote here in florida. the truth of the matter is there is a pathway to victory there. it is a scorched earth pathway. that s the race that they re running. it is interesting to that very point. this race was racialized from the beginning. let me just play you one back and forth. this is a little bit long, but i will play you two sound bytes. gillum calling him by his first name and desantis s response. i met him for the first time the other night and all of a sudden without invitation, he was calling me andrew. between the two of us, he quit his job in congress. but i m a sitting mayor, and he
And he got out of the van and didn t take off his seat belt. the window was halfway open. he grabbed a branch or twig. and the kids were screaming. he can her them screaming and crying. they wanted out of the van. and he kept yelling at them climb out the back. get out the backdoor. as that is one of the most heart breaking parts of this incredibly heart-breaking story is that your brother witnessed it all happening. yes. the van going down, knowing his parents are in it, his great nieces and nephews are in it. our brother danny and his grandkids. how did you get the word today that they had actually found the van? danny called me and said his son, andrew, found the van by
Himself. i don t know if he had anybody else. he just told me andrew was there. and he could see the van under the water. and he told you they had found the bodies? yeah. well, basically i knew then. they said a diver went down and they could see two adults in the front seat and they couldn t see in the back of the van. and so you were very close with your parents. oh, yes, all of us were. to lose them so suddenly is yeah. a bigger challenge? yes, but at their age, you start getting ready for it. you start keeping little messages that dad puts on your phone. but you wanted a memento of your parents? i wanted to hear like he was calling me on the phone. sorry. yeah, i just want to hear dad. so many people around the country and around the world have heard your story.